The Award seeks to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies in which Muslims have a significant presence. Visit the Aga Khan Award site, it is packed with excellent coverage of the winning projects, with photos and movies! Quick... View full entry
Read more about the Zorrozaurre, Bilbao, master plan by Zaha Hadid: "a 60 hectare area cradled in a long curve of the Nervion River just across from the city's centre." The new PDF that we have just received from her office also features recent design images. previously... View full entry
Three winning designs are announced for a new research station in Antarctica -Buro Happold & Lifschutz Davidson -FaberMaunsell & Hugh Broughton Architects -Hopkins Architects more inside >> The three teams will have a site visit in January 2005, before developing their ideas. A... View full entry
Polshek 's expansion to the New York Hall of Science in Queens is opening today. | nytimes | newsday | construction View full entry
Voice of America ran a piece on what Floramae McCarron-Cates (Future Shack), Lot-Ek and Fox and Fowle are doing with modular shipping containers. Transcripts and A/V feeds are available on-line. “It seems like such a simple idea you might wonder why someone hadn't thought of it before... View full entry
Young, unknown group of architects named FAM win competition for 11M Madrid Train Bombing Memorial. Their design is an irregular 10m-tall cylinder-like lamp inscribed not with the names of victims but the messages people left at the station. cnn+ | madridiario | via View full entry
Christo and Jeanne-Claude 's installation of 7,500 gates in Central Park will begin next week, it was announced yesterday. | nytimes | prev View full entry
Charles Smith reports for the SF Chron some little lessons about urban density in Japan, and how if at all we can apply similar models and aesthetics to our own cramped metro quarters. Read View full entry
The 440,000sf Canadian War Museum by Moriyama & Teshima is on schedule. | star | construction | rend 1 2 View full entry
Architects embark on campaign to save Tripoli Fair Grounds and its Oscar Niemeyer mid-60's structures; Development will disfigure symbol of Lebanese modernism Read | more pics at arcoweb | via View full entry
After competition triumph, Zaha Hadid signed the contract for the Euskotren HQ Tower & Park in Durango (images), part of a larger development with other buildings by Dominique Perrault and FOA on way. (el correo). But that's not all for her in Spain... She recently presented a master plan for... View full entry
Mills Corp, USA, wins RFQ for megaproject on the site of the former Mercati Generali "near the famed Roman Forum and Coliseum, and will include about 830,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment as well as an as-yet-unspecified office component;" Rem Koolhaas/OMA lead designers. CPN |... View full entry
An iconic statement for the European Central Bank by Coop Himmelb(l)au is the favorite scheme and potentially the most politically explosive. It's fate could be decided in coming months. NYTimes View full entry
"The loss of a great landmark is a cause of grief resulting not just in heightened appreciation of the old but a resolve to build anew and build resplendently. The anguish of September 11 has encouraged both these instincts. We are addicts of both Restoration and Grand Designs." After decades of... View full entry
Voice of America's Tim Wardner did this short piece on the use of shipping containers in design, and spoke with Floramae McCarron-Cates, (assoc. curator, New York's Cooper-Hewitt Museum), Giuseppe Lignano, (Architect, Lot-Ek), & Mark Strauss, (Architect, Fox and Fowle). Read, w/ some... View full entry